laying eggs along the way, which produces even more locusts. In a single day, a small swarm (群) of the insects can eat as much food as 35 ,000 people do. The locust swarms in Ethiopia and Somalia are the worst in 25 years. These locusts are desert locusts. They began swarming abou...
The year was 1875, and three trillion locusts were descending from the skies all the way from Texas to Montana. In the history of the world, this was the largest swarm of record. The weight of the locusts broke the branches off trees. People went screaming to their homes because insects ...
desert locust in Pakistan and India present since April led to swarms spreading into the Indo-Pakistan border region in June, and so we examined historical wind data for this period. Our results showed that winds at the altitude of locust swarm flight blew eastward during April–June, but the...